A program on railroad history will be presented at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Sayre Historical Society. The program, titled “Along the Line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad from New York to Niagara ...

On the last day of the year 1865, Robert H. Sayre, self-taught engineer, creator of Bethlehem Iron Company (later Bethlehem Steel), and man of all work to Lehigh Valley Railroad founder Asa Packer ...

Robert H. Sayre, second vice president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, drove in the second gold spike. Sayre, who was chief engineer of the railroad, was a friend and associate of Asa Packer ...